*Edit* – quest solved please read the comments 
http://tinyurl.com/39ys8re Driven on by fellow Twitterers @sbutterworth and @whatkatedoes (Kate-Z releasing a Target Renegade 3 Remix) and a random sense of me just needing to know now – we are investigating the following…
In 1987 in Issue 30 of Zzap!64 magazine a competition was run thus:
The winner of the machine was revealed in Issue 32 as Jozef Pierlejewski from Manchester.
We were wondering if the machine is still around/working? Can anyone help locate it or the winner for old times sake? It would be fascinating to know
There is this dude on Facebook; http://www.facebook.com/jmp909
Name and location looks correct….
Ha! More effective than any CSI investigation
Hi,
it is indeed me. (not a difficult name to find after all!)
I’ve not seen this case since about the mid-90′s. I can’t even remember what happened to it, but the short version is: after electrocuting myself trying to fix a wonky button on it, I think it ended up either donated or scrap.
I guess it wasn’t really built for longevity.
For anyone that doesn’t know, this was an arcade machine board re-housed in a metal camera case by Ocean Software during development of their version of the game Renegade. I believe they used these units for playtesting the games before and during development of the home computer versions.
I think I hammered the game so much I broke it
I never beat it either.
Anyway thanks for looking me up, and maybe it’ll turn up yet!
J.
That’s awesome, well found Glen and Anna.
Thanks Joe, for getting in touch.
: )
Hurrah! The power of positive thinking and er… the internet
\o/
Thanks also to Swordfish who also came up with J’s FB profile
p.s. I asked @JazRignall whether he’d played it. “Yeah it was v cool. Saw one @Ocean with Slap Fight in it. I think you could switch in diff boards… BTW I wanted one sooo bad. These days a GP2X puts a whole arcade (+more) in your pocket. That was cutting edge back then. Lolz.”
p.p.s. Ah, I miss the 80′s